White Backlash : Immigration, Race, and American Politics / Zoltan L. Hajnal, Marisa Abrajano.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Abrajano, Marisa, author.

Hajnal, Zoltan L., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Race--United States.

Race.

Political participation--United States.

Political participation.

Voting--United States.

Voting.

United States--Emigration and immigration.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

White Backlash provides an authoritative assessment of how immigration is reshaping the politics of the nation. Using an array of data and analysis, Marisa Abrajano and Zoltan Hajnal show that fears about immigration fundamentally influence white Americans' core political identities, policy preferences, and electoral choices, and that these concerns are at the heart of a large-scale defection of whites from the Democratic to the Republican Party.Abrajano and Hajnal demonstrate that this political backlash has disquieting implications for the future of race relations in America. White Americans' concerns about Latinos and immigration have led to support for policies that are less generous and more punitive and that conflict with the preferences of much of the immigrant population. America's growing racial and ethnic diversity is leading to a greater racial divide in politics. As whites move to the right of the political spectrum, racial and ethnic minorities generally support the left. Racial divisions in partisanship and voting, as the authors indicate, now outweigh divisions by class, age, gender, and other demographic measures.White Backlash raises critical questions and concerns about how political beliefs and future elections will change the fate of America's immigrants and minorities, and their relationship with the rest of the nation.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Tables

Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART I. Theory

PART II. Views on Immigration and Defection to the Republican Party

PART III. Understanding the Roots of the Backlash

PART IV. The Consequences

References

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

9780691176192

0691176191

9781400866489

1400866480

OCLC:

904134774